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Venetians Embrace Color Over the Drawn Line

For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color.

Aired 06/19/2018 | Rating NR

Civilizations

Venetians Embrace Color Over the Drawn Line

Clip: Episode 7 | 1m 56sVideo has Closed Captions

For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color.

For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color. But Venetians see art and the world quite differently.

Aired 06/19/2018 | Rating NR

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